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Inspirational Quotes by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- The flesh is at the heart of the world.
- To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
- It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
- Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful... but also when it comes to happiness.
- The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him.
- My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
- We know not through our intellect but through our experience.
- The body is our general medium for having a world.
- Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.
- It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
- Nothing determines me from outside, not because nothing acts upon me, but, on the contrary, because I am from the start outside myself and open…
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento